For years you’ve watched Joan Rivers on The Shopping Channel. Funny, brash, stylish and biting, her visits to our television studios bring with them a unique energy that you just don’t get with anyone else but Joan.

We know bits of her story, we listen to her celebrity anecdotes, but now Joan has revealed herself in a way she’s never done before. In the just realeased, critically-acclaimed documentary Joan Rivers: a Piece of Work, Joan let cameras follow her for a 14-month period. From the back roads of America to her palatial home and everywhere in between, you’ll see what drives Joan to keep getting on stage after all these years.

Retire? Hopefully never.  As Joan was quoted in the Globe & Mail:

“You retire when the audience stops laughing,” Rivers says. “At its best, being onstage, performing well, it’s like everyone falls in love. No, it’s true. Me, the crowd, all of us together, we fall in love. If you’ve ever seen my show and I say ‘I love you’ to an audience, I really mean it. I don’t always say it. But when I do, it’s true.

“Listen, I don’t want to go to lunch with people,” Rivers says. “I don’t want to take cooking lessons. I want to be onstage, making people laugh. That’s where I belong.” Read the full Globe & Mail article.

We look forward to Joan Rivers joining us on our stage once again this weekend. Tune in for her first show at 8PM ET tonight.